Joe Womack, retired U.S. Marine Corps Major, president of the Clean, Healthy Educated, Safe & Sustainable Community, Inc., and co-founder of the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation, speaks at the Mobile Distirct’s Black History Month Luncheon, February 1, 2023, in Mobile, Alabama. Womack spoke about the history of Africatown and the preservation of the slave ship Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the United States that was scuttled off the Mobile Harbor near present day Africatown in Mobile. (U.S. Army photo by Chuck Walker)